Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Who’d have thought the day would come when a Harley FLH would find itself among the three smallest and most compact bikes in a comparison test? Compared with the gargantuan Rocket III and our four Japanese baggers, the Harley feels positively weightless and delicate. The Guzzi and Victory are both [...]
Photography by Jeff Allen Every time I saw the Guzzi in my rearview mirrors, I flinched and wondered if I should pull over and produce my driver’s license for the man with the big shiny boots and Ray-Bans. The Guzzi’s classy retro styling, like the Harley’s, hearkens back to another [...]
Every group of bikes has one all-rounder that generates few complaints, irritates least and earns the sober respect of our test riders for its thorough engineering and general competence in all things. And in this group that bike was the Honda. Its big, uncannily smooth, three-valve 1795cc V-Twin—with 101.8 peak [...]
Photography by Jeff Allen A small confession here: I was prepared not to like the Triumph because I rode a standard Rocket III cruiser a few years ago and found it long, heavy, wide and reluctant to change direction. These negative factors were mitigated only by the neat engine architecture, [...]
Photography by Jeff Allen We start with a disclaimer here, because our Victory was inadvertently delivered with factory Stage 1 slip-ons, which have a slightly larger core diameter and caused the dealer to re-map the fuel-injection at the time of installation. All the rest of our bikes were dead stock, [...]
Photography by Jeff Allen And now to the Road Star, a perfectly nice bike that worked well enough but failed to excel in any one area and won few raves or accolades—except for its low price, which is never to be dismissed. The Star’s amiable but low-key 1670cc engine is [...]
Photography by Jeff Allen What we have here is a big motor in a big bike, from, as Editor Edwards put it, the “add-leather, add-windscreen school.” The Kawasaki is an 850-pound bike (but only third heaviest here) with a 2-liter motor that kicks out major torque and the best 0–60 [...]
Photography by Jeff Allen As this ride evolved over four days, the bikes seemed to separate themselves into two groups. Group A included those bikes where your desire to ride hard, fast and long was appreciated by the engineers who designed your windshield, saddle, suspension and luggage. Group B took [...]
Photography by Jeff Allen I climbed on the big Suzuki somewhere near Banning Pass, and as we sped rapidly out across the desert, my first thought was, Never in the field of human endeavor has any motorcycle so successfully loafed at 100 mph. Even at high speeds, the 109RT engine [...]
Not to be left out of the flurry of new model announcements, Triumph Motors added two updated models to its 2009 product line at the 2008 INTERMOT show in Cologne, Germany.The 2009 Triumph Scrambler gets two hip color options. The first is matte green, to evoke the look of “military [...]
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